See also: 1858 in science, other events of 1859, 1860 in science and the list of years in science.
Awards Copley Medal: Wilhelm Weber Wollaston Medal for geology: Charles Darwin Births Deaths May 5 - Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, mathematician (born 1805) May 6 - Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer (born 1769) September 10 - Thomas Nuttall, naturalist (born 1786) September 15 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (born 1806)
